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June 2010

Compensation costs in manufacturing across industries and countries, 1975-2007

Elizabeth Zamora, Jacob Kirchmer

Rankings of manufacturing industries based on employers’ labor costs for production workers changed very little from 1975 to 2007 and also did not tend to differ much from country to country; however, trends in the range and dispersion of labor costs have varied substantially across countries

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